Edible Estates is a great book about replacing one’s front lawn with an edible and useful garden. Instead of using the backyard, they are expressing their criticism of suburbia’s cookie-cutter grass lawn. It makes passerby’s think about why they use so much water, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and gasoline (cutting the grass) for something that really [...]

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The New York Times recently wrote Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs. It is great that the fuel prices are now leading some to question “The American Dream.”
The surburban lifestyle - the American lifestyle - is not sustainable. It was built by the cheap [...]

The Bloom attaches to your bicycle like an exhaust, but instead of releasing CO2 it leaves a trail of bubbles. While this alone would make it cool enough to buy, it goes beyond the aesthetic and serves a (subversive) purpose.
Seeds are added to the bubble mixture, so when you ride your bike the seeds [...]

Instead of seeing urban animals like crows as vermin, Josh Klein proposes training them to work with us to improve our environment. He built a “crow vending machine” that rewards crows with food if they deposit a coin, trash, or whatever the vending machine is set up to accept. Imagine using crows to clean up [...]